Monday, December 31, 2007
LANZHOU, China – Convicted killer Ran Zhouping, 32, has been sentenced to death following his confession that he committed a series of murders dating back to 2002. Zhouping, who was already serving a life sentence for the 2002 murder of a prostitute, admitted to the 2001 murders of a mother and her four children, the shooting death of a farmer, and the fatal stabbing of a taxi driver. Zhouping said he would not appeal the decision.
Tuesday, January 01, 2007
BANGALORE, India – Investigators have arrested a 43-year-old woman whom they suspect is India’s first female serial killer. According to police, the suspect, identified only as Mallika, used cyanide to murder at least six women. “So far, we have detected six such murders, one of which was committed way back in 1999, and the remaining five that happened in the last two months of 2007,” City Police Commissioner N Achuta Rao told Dnaindia.com. “It appears that she has committed the cold-blooded murders single handedly. We have yet to trace any accomplices and determine whether she was involved in more offences or committed more such murders,” he added.
Wednesday, January 02, 2007
CHICAGO, IL — Members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) community suspect that a serial killer is targeting them following the recent murders of two gay men. The first victim, Larry Bland, 24, was shot to death on November 17, 2007, inside his home. Approximately five weeks later, on December 23, 2007, Donald Young, 47, was also shot to death in his home on Chicago’s south side. Friends of the men have described them both as openly gay. “We are concerned the police department has not issued a necessary community alert,” Marc Loveless from the Coalition for Justice and Respect said in an interview with NBC5.com. In response, Dana Starks, acting superintendent of the city’s police department, said, “We normally would not put out a community alert unless there was some type of activity leading us to believe there was a serial incident.” As of this writing, there is no evidence that the two cases are connected.
Thursday, January 03, 2007
MARION, IL — Governor Rod Blagojevich has rejected a request by prosecutors in Missouri to extradite confessed serial killer Timothy Krajcir, 63, until he faces murder charges in Williamson County. In December, Krajcir, who was already serving a 40-year prison sentence for a 1982 murder, confessed to killing eight other women in Illinois and Missouri.
Friday, January 04, 2007
CROWTHORNE, England — According to sources at Broadmoor Hospital, convicted serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, 61, has announced plans to sue the hospital following injuries he received there last month when a fellow patient stabbed him in the face with a knife. Roughly ten years ago, Sutcliffe received £196,000 in compensation after he lost an eye in a similar incident. “This time, the knife missed Sutcliffe’s eye and bounced off his cheekbone—there was a lot of blood. Half an inch higher, and he’d be blind,” an unnamed source said in an interview with Thesun.co.uk, adding, “He has made it quite clear that he would be looking at taking legal action for what happened.” Sutcliffe is currently serving a life sentence for the murders of over a dozen women.
Trivia:
This Week’s Question:
Q: What did the media nickname the killer couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka?
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